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Title	:	L'Œuvre au noir
Author	:	Marguerite Yourcenar
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 480 pages
Published	:	June 25th 1976 by Folio (first published May 8th 1968)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. France. Classics. European Literature. French Literature

L'Œuvre au noir

Marguerite Yourcenar

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 480 pages

Rating: 4.07 | 3712 Users | 227 Reviews

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En créant le personnage de Zénon, alchimiste et médecin du XVIe siècle, Marguerite Yourcenar, l'auteure des Mémoires d'Hadrien, ne raconte pas seulement le destin tragique d'un homme extraordinaire. C'est toute une époque qui revit dans son infinie richesse, comme aussi dans son âcre et brutale réalité ; un monde contrasté où s'affrontent le Moyen Age et la Renaissance, et où pointent déjà les temps modernes, monde dont Zénon est issu, mais dont peu à peu cet homme libre se dégage, et qui pour cette raison même finira par le broyer.

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Original Title:	L'Œuvre au noir
ISBN:	2070367983 (ISBN13: 9782070367986)
Edition Language:	French URL http://www.gallimard.fr/Catalogue/GALLIMARD/Folio/Folio/L-OEuvre-au-Noir
Literary Awards:	Prix Femina (1968)

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Ratings: 4.07 From 3712 Users | 227 Reviews

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beautifully written historical novel, maybe one if the best ever. a story of Zenon a typical renaissance person who a bit resemble de vinchi and arasmus from roterdam in the ability to look for truth, the strong will for liberty and the believe in the ability of man. things which are easily forgotten in dark times

I read this book 30 years ago, but it made no lasting impression, back then. The second reading, I started in French, but after 160 pages I had to switch to a Dutch translation: Yourcenar uses a vocabulary that is quite out of the common, and in addition the book is frequently very "hermetic" (deliberately, given the alchemist-like character of the protagonist Zeno ?). This is also my main criticism: some dialogues, meditations, reflections of Zeno are hard to follow. Also the structure of the

I read it in Romanian, and, lucky me, the translation was amazing (thank you, Mrs Sanda Oprescu!). What can I say (I hope I've made myself pretty clear so far, my reviews are pretty poor and rather subjective)? You know when you have to run? I'm a runner. Well... I'm trying to be. Lately, I haven't been running too much, and every now and then I made it up to the gym, I ran for 5-6 minutes, then I have to stop, and walk for a couple of minutes. Reading this book was pretty much the same. I would

Truly epic

L'œuvre au noir (literally, oeuvre to black ) or, for English readers, The Abyss, is considered one of the two greatest works of Yourcenar, together with Memoirs of Hadrian. There are some obvious similarities between the two works: their main characters are both free-thinking men, visionaries ahead of their time whose brilliance both makes them shine and detaches them from the rest of society; both are written somewhat introspectively, narrating the evolution of the main character's life; and

The jaded public library copy I've been reading just gave out. And for the best. I need my own copy - it has been torture, resisting the urge to underscore all the aphoristic sparkle.

It is no accident that the protagonist, Zeno, is the child of Messer Alberico de'Nummi, an Italian. As an Italian he is the symbol for the humanist wind that blew through Europe for nearly a century. Humanism was a 'lifestyle' for a minor (read: rich!) part of the population. The Humanist focus on Greek and Roman literature and visual arts, combined with a perspective on worldly living instead of focusing all their attention on the afterlife gave Europe's fifteen century cultural life some vital